Noyb Files Five Privacy Complaints Against Scale AI

The privacy group Noyb filed five complaints against Scale AI on October 27, alleging that its Outlier platform unlawfully monitors freelance workers in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. The complaints ask data protection authorities to examine practices involving tracking and biometric identity checks. Regulators have not yet tested the allegations. Outlier recruits freelancers to help train and evaluate artificial intelligence models. Noyb says the platform has more than 900,000 workers, a figure attributed to the group. It alleges that trackers on workers’ devices collect personal information and that workers are repeatedly required to verify their identities using biometric data. The complaints claim the monitoring lacks an adequate legal basis and violates European Union privacy protections, including requirements to limit personal-data collection. They also allege that workers’ requests for access to their personal data went unanswered. The complaints cited four workers who sought copies of their data between December 2025 and May 2026 and, according to the allegations, received no response. Scale AI rejected the claims, calling them unfounded and inaccurate....